Yahoo's Marissa Mayer on priorities, layoffs, mobile

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer spoke to Fortune writer and editor Patricia Sellers Tuesday night at a dinner recognizing the magazine's Most Powerful Women. While we're still waiting to see Sellers' story, All Things D's Kara Swisher somehow managed to virtually crash the party (which wasn't open to media beyond Forbes).

Main takeaways? Yahoo's acquisition focus (and general focus) is still on mobile - which Mayer highlighted during her first earnings call in October. She's also a contender for Time Magazine's Person of the Year (and would like you to vote for her). She's not planning any kind of online maps, she's still sidestepping any talk about layoffs, and she's turning down just about all media requests for interviews because she's "ruthlessly" prioritizing (I guess she does have a new baby and a company to turn around).

Well, new baby, company and meetings at the White House. Today she's off to Washington DC to chat fiscal cliff with President Barack Obama. Read about that here.

Read Swisher's liveblog from the event at Garden Court Hotel in Palo Alto here. Also catch Business Insiders' take here, which suggests Mayer's strategy on its best apps will be to work with Apple on distribution.

UPDATE: More from Fortune's Patricia Sellers, including video clips, can be found here.